I just compared this to 3 monkey articles on Washinton Post, and the difference in quality is massive, as usual.
I still think it makes sense to look at vaccine stockpiles as something that can suddenly become an outdated formula, considering what happened with Omicron; the vaccines produced in 2021 were probably produced in the hopes that something like Omicron wouldn’t infect everyone everywhere anyway.
As a side note, I looked at this title and I thought that it was mandatory for me to read. I’m very glad that that was just my mistake.
I just want to clarify that I don’t think there was nothning wrong with the title, I just thought my experience was funny.
Also, I retracted my statement about “probably produced” since it’s definitely possible that the vaccine worked as-expected against omicron, but by reducing hospitalizations and preventing mass graves. The people who actually oversee vaccine production (i.e. not moderna or pfizer executives) are probably people who see hospitals as key strategic infrastructure, like power stations, and the possibility of omicron infecting everyone everywhere may have been a contingency for them while they managed the design of the original vaccines.
Just because “vaccines still protect you from harm” is a message that unreliable pundits repeat ad-infinitum, doesn’t mean it’s not true. At this point, news outlets will constantly heap praise the vaccine, even if it actually deserves it; they are a broken clock. After all, future pandemics might be much more lethal than this one, especially due to the uptick in gain-of-function research, and none of us know what that pandemic might look like; vaccines might be the only defense that works at all.
I just compared this to 3 monkey articles on Washinton Post, and the difference in quality is massive, as usual.
I still think it makes sense to look at vaccine stockpiles as something that can suddenly become an outdated formula, considering what happened with Omicron; the vaccines produced in 2021 were probably produced in the hopes that something like Omicron wouldn’t infect everyone everywhere anyway.
As a side note, I looked at this title and I thought that it was mandatory for me to read. I’m very glad that that was just my mistake.
Good note on the title. Hopefully the first paragraph cleared that up, but I’ll watch for that in the future. Likely too late at this point to fix.
I just want to clarify that I don’t think there was nothning wrong with the title, I just thought my experience was funny.
Also, I retracted my statement about “probably produced” since it’s definitely possible that the vaccine worked as-expected against omicron, but by reducing hospitalizations and preventing mass graves. The people who actually oversee vaccine production (i.e. not moderna or pfizer executives) are probably people who see hospitals as key strategic infrastructure, like power stations, and the possibility of omicron infecting everyone everywhere may have been a contingency for them while they managed the design of the original vaccines.
Just because “vaccines still protect you from harm” is a message that unreliable pundits repeat ad-infinitum, doesn’t mean it’s not true. At this point, news outlets will constantly heap praise the vaccine, even if it actually deserves it; they are a broken clock. After all, future pandemics might be much more lethal than this one, especially due to the uptick in gain-of-function research, and none of us know what that pandemic might look like; vaccines might be the only defense that works at all.